Program's Won't Install

[Ted]

Since upgrading to XP Pro I have had difficulty
installing programs. I download a file, the installation
windows goes through it steps and then.........nothing.
I've tried installing programs off a disk, I get a clock
when I first double click it to install, the clock lasts
about 5 secs and then disappears and..........nothing!!
When I go to to Task Manager/Processes the setup.exe is
listed, but, nothing installs. This has been going on
since I upgraded back in June.

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Ted,

Tried disabling your antivirus before installing anything yet?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Ted" > wrote in message
...
> Since upgrading to XP Pro I have had difficulty
> installing programs. I download a file, the installation
> windows goes through it steps and then.........nothing.
> I've tried installing programs off a disk, I get a clock
> when I first double click it to install, the clock lasts
> about 5 secs and then disappears and..........nothing!!
> When I go to to Task Manager/Processes the setup.exe is
> listed, but, nothing installs. This has been going on
> since I upgraded back in June.

[Ted]

No, haven't tried that. I found that I can install
programs in Safe Mode. Frustrating as to why they won't
in normal mode, makes me wish I stayed with 98!
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Ted,
>
>Tried disabling your antivirus before installing
anything yet?
>
>--
>Best of Luck,
>
>Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
>"Ted" > wrote in message
...
>> Since upgrading to XP Pro I have had difficulty
>> installing programs. I download a file, the
installation
>> windows goes through it steps and then.........nothing.
>> I've tried installing programs off a disk, I get a
clock
>> when I first double click it to install, the clock
lasts
>> about 5 secs and then disappears and..........nothing!!
>> When I go to to Task Manager/Processes the setup.exe is
>> listed, but, nothing installs. This has been going on
>> since I upgraded back in June.
>
>
>.
>

[Eric Booth]

"Ted" > wrote in message
...
> No, haven't tried that. I found that I can install
> programs in Safe Mode. Frustrating as to why they won't
> in normal mode, makes me wish I stayed with 98!
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi Ted,
> >
> >Tried
> >> since I upgraded back in June.

A foolproof method of installing programs is : Close all running
progams --particularly AV ones--run DiskClean to empty Temp files and then
install
Eric Booth